We are delighted to announce a talk by artist Adrián Balseca in collaboration with Belfast School of Art, as part of his project ‘Nyctalopia’, opening in late June at Void Art Centre. This artist talk will take place on Thursday 2 May 2024, from 1pm at Belfast School of Art.
The talk will form part of Adrián’s research residency as part of ‘Nyctalopia’ or ‘night blindness’ which illuminates a question similar to that posed by B. Johnson in their 1967 publication ‘Carbon Nation’: ‘Who are we, and who would we be without the combustion of prehistoric carbon?’. In confronting an ‘ecological nyctalopia’, we are compelled to instigate transformative shifts within our culture and rediscover the ‘archaeologies of the future’. The residency preludes the project at Void Art Centre which marks the artist’s first solo show in Ireland and the UK.
The exhibition will offer a critical examination of how the fossil fuel and carbon-based industries have displaced collective mobility systems in Northern Ireland, reshaping the territory in the process. Through a diverse array of mediums including film, graphics, and sculpture, the project will amalgamate cultural artefacts of varying orders, spanning from photographic archives to automobile accessories, to embody a sombre reflection on how economic forces materialise and fabricate narratives that enforce the primacy of the individual over the collective.
Room is tbc and we will send you the exact location via email in advance.
